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The Concatenate Multi-Value Lookup into One Field for Display Purposes technical trick provides an overview of how to group or concatenate the various levels and values of a Multi-Value lookup into one field in both Oracle and SQL Server environments. This allows the lookup values to be more easily displayed in a portlet. The function concatenates the values together using a choice of delimiter, which then allows the multi-value lookup to be viewed as one portlet column, in the same manner as any other object attribute. -
The Allow PM to Give Certain Rights modification allows the project manager to delegate rights (chosen by the administrator on the PM Rights object) on his or her projects. This modification eliminates the need for project managers to request additional rights through the PMO/management and simplifies the entire process for everyone involved. The system administrator is able to customize the PM Rights object to pick which rights should be granted to users by the process. The process begins when a change is made on the newly created “Grant / Revoke” field on the project object. The process will then grant or revoke (depending on what option is selected) any rights listed in the PM Rights object to the user in the “Assign PM Rights” field on the project object. -
Course description: “Are some of your users leveraging a Smartsheet add-on for project planning, or are you looking for an alternative to OWB and MSP? Learn how this new scheduling tool is making waves and adding value for project managers working within CA PPM.” Download file is the presentation slidedeck. -
Course description: “How are other companies storing or managing documents? This session will discuss options for using native CA PPM, linking to SharePoint, connecting directly to SharePoint, using Google docs, as well as other options. This session will also discuss options for document approval workflows within CA PPM for both collaborative documents and attachment fields.” Download file is the slide deck used during the presentation. -
This Process sends an email to every Action Item Assignee where the Due Date/Time has passed and the Status is either Open, or In Progress. Users may want to modify this stalker to include Status = Deferred. In addition, the Resource Manager for the Assignee receives a copy of the email. In order to generate emails, the SMTP gateway must be up and running and Resources must have a valid email address. -
Notify the PM with a list of tasks for their project as soon as the Timesheet is submitted. This is a good substitute for PM approval. When a timesheet is submitted, then the PM knows the time entered by person. This is an Auto-start process in Clarity named PM Time Notification - On Timesheet Submission and will be automatically spawned when a Timesheet is submitted. When the process is started it will be seen in the Initiated on the Processes tab. The process status can be monitored from Running to the Completed stage. The Progress when 100% and the Status is Completed, an email would have arrived to the Project Manager with subject: “Resource <Name> has entered the following time on your Investment(s) for the week starting <Timesheet Start Date> ”. This email will list the Investments managed by the PM where task was entered by the Resource submitting the timesheet. Each PM would get a separate notification. PM for project X notified, and PM for project Y gets notified in another email. Therefore, one timesheet may spawn out multiple emails. But, if both the Projects have the Same PM, then only a single email gets sent out. “Opt-out Timesheet Notifications" checkbox is provided on the Project for PM’s who do not want to get notified on those projects. -
The Populate Timesheets process converts task level ETC into time entered on the timesheet. The process relies on the resource “opting in” to the process by checking a new attribute called “Auto Populate Timesheet?”, as well as the project manager “opting in” at the project level via a new attribute called “Auto Populate Timesheet?” Once the resource opts in and the PM opts in, the process will create a timesheet for the resource, pulling in the ETCs for the tasks that week and moving them to the actual hours. Once the process runs, an email will be sent to the resource letting them know the hours have been applied. -
This can be used to remove all automatic permissions (Resource Manager Auto) granted to users as a result of becoming a resource manager. NOTE: The ability to remove the right is with the admin only -
The interface runs using a MS Excel template called Project Allocation Upload that will be distributed to users.- Configuration
- A master object called Allocation Upload Files will be created. The object will contain a required attachment field on the create page that will receive the Project Allocation Upload MS Excel file.
- A new sub-object called Allocation Upload Records will be created. This object will contain the fields necessary to receive the data rows from the Project Allocation Upload template.
- The master object will store the file level data while the sub-object will store the rows that belong to the file.
- Users must be granted security to view and edit the master and sub-objects in order to run the upload process.
- Project Allocation Upload Template
- The Project Allocation Upload template must remain static. Any changes other than creating additional time periods or additional rows will cause the process to error.
- Only the Project Allocation Upload template can be used to load records to the new objects.
- The Project Allocation Upload will only accept months across the x-axis in the format DD/MM/YYYY. The month headers must appear in the first row of the template and contain the first day of the month.
- The template must be distributed to the users that will be using the upload functionality.
- Users will be required to enter an Investment ID and Resource ID so the process can correctly identify investments and resources to upload the allocation hours against.
- A Staff OBS is not required but can be populated by users to have the data uploaded into CA PPM.
- The owner of the Project Allocation Upload template is responsible for providing users a valid list of Staff OBS Units.
- Investments will not be created through the interface. As such a valid Investment ID must be provided.
- Resources can be added to the investment team through the interface. If a valid Resource ID is provided the resource’s allocation will be updated if the resource already exists on the investment. If the resource does not already exist on the investment the resource will be added to the team along with the allocation hours.
- The Project Allocation Upload template will accept hours, not allocation percentages. Because CA PPM stores allocations as percentages of a resource’s availability the upload process must convert hours to a percentage. As a result small rounding errors may occur in the neighborhood of .01 hours per month.
- Resources cannot be removed from investment teams through the interface.
- The Project Allocation Upload template will support allocation uploads to different instances of the same role on the same investment as long as different Staff OBS units are provided.
- If multiple instances of the same role are assigned to the investment with the same Staff OBS the process will not know which instance of the role to upload the hours to. In these cases the process will consider these records as invalid. The PM will need to manually remove one of the instances or upload the hours manually..
- If multiple instances of the same role with the same Staff OBS unit are assigned to the same investment in the upload template the monthly hours will be totaled by investment, by role, by Staff OBS.
- The allocation template will follow the format in the screenshot area.
- Process
- To initiate the Allocation Interface a user will create a new Allocation Upload File instance, attach the Project Allocation Upload Template, and save the record. The file attachment field is an “enter-once” field, meaning that once a value has been set it cannot be changed. If a user wishes to upload another field they will create a new record.
- After the file has been attached the user will be presented with two check box fields, one to Validate and one to Validate and Upload. Checking either or both options will initiate the process.
- The process will first determine if any sub-object instances exist for the file. In other words, do any records already exist in the Allocation Upload Records sub-object pertaining to the newly uploaded file. If there are no records in the sub-object the process will use the uploaded file and read its contents into the sub-object. If errors are encountered during the file read they will be written to the process console, the process will throw an error, and end.
- Next, records will be validated. Only the sub-object instances that belong to the master object will be validated. Records belonging to other master object instances will not be validated or processed. All records in a status of Ready for Processing, Failed Validation, or Xog Load Error will be validated. Records will fail validation if an investment is not found corresponding to the investment ID provided, a resource is not found corresponding to the resource ID provided, or the date provided is not valid, or a provided Staff OBS does not yield a match. Records that fail validation will be flagged as invalid along with a description as to why they failed validation. Records that pass validation will be flagged as Ready for Processing and locked. The sub-object instances can be exported to excel if further analysis is required. If the Validate & Upload option was not selected the process will end here.
- Regarding the Staff OBS. Only one OBS can be designed as the OBS that the interface will use to validate the Staff OBS records.
- The Staff OBS value from the template must match against the name of an OBS node in the designed Staff OBS.
- If the Staff OBS value matches against multiple nodes in the Staff OBS the record will be flagged as invalid as the process will not know which node to use.
- If the Validate & Upload option was selected the process will continue and any valid records will be xog’ed into the investment team. The xog will be executed as the user that initiated the process so any security rules enforced by xog will be respected by the process.
- Successful records will be flagged as Processed Successfully in the sub-object and remain locked. Records that did not load successfully, due to a xog error or security limitation will be flagged as Xog Load Error, unlocked, and updated with a description containing the full xog output.
- Records that failed validation or failed the xog load can be manually edited and revalidated, and attempt to be uploaded again. Subsequent runs of the process will not read in data from the file, but rather process only sub-object instances that currently exist.
- Configuration
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This process, Shift Project Dates, helps Project Managers change an entire Project / Idea’s dates to a new start date. Once the three attributes are added to the Idea /Project Views, the PM can trigger the process by entering a date in the New Start Date field and checking the Shift checkbox. The process runs automatically on Save. The process calculates the date difference between the original Start Date and New Start Date then shifts all Allocation, Task, and Assignment dates by the calculated difference. For example, if a Project is set to begin on January 1st and needs to be pushed to a February 1st start date, the process first determines that there are 31 days between the original start date and the new date. Next the process increases the start date for each Task, Allocation and Assignment by 31 days. NOTE: The process will shift Allocation dates regardless of resource restrictions such as a Termination Date or non-working time as marked on their calendar. The Team page will reflect the Available Start and Finish as shifted by the process, but the Allocation hours and % will take unavailable time into account. For example, if a shift process sets the start date for a resource to be after their date of termination the dates will change by the date difference, but the Allocation hours will correctly be calculated as zero. -
The Project Compliance Stalker – PM sends an email to Project Managers (and also their managers if so desired) at a set interval to alert them to project compliance issues. Areas of compliance that are reviewed include: stale project tasks (stale = past due date), late issues and risks (past due date) and late status reports. -
Based on the pre-determined schedule frequency, this job will send an email to Resource Managers that have a Resource meeting the criteria of: Average allocations are greater than 120% where Resource(s) and Project(s) are active over the next 90 days. This serves as a reminder to Resource Managers to monitor and manage allocations. The contents of the email include a message indicating the Resource Manager has at least one Resource meeting this criteria and a table indicating the Resource and that resource’s average, next 90 days allocations.
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